LINUX ADMINISTRATORS: YOU MUST START HERE Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Edition 1 Manufacturing Part Number: T1495-90002 E0403 U.S.A. © Copyright 2003 © Hewlett-Packard Company. All rights reserved.
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Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Announcement 1 Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Announcement You must have a service partition set up for your system hardware to be supported. The service partition should come pre-loaded.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Support Note Contents Support Note Contents 1. System Requirements 2. Distributions Supported on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 3. Preparing Your HP Carrier Grade Server cc3300/cc2300 for Operating System Installation 4. Getting Updates from Red Hat Network 5.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 System Requirements System Requirements The system requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 are: • BIOS rev. 22 or later. If your BIOS is lower than revision 22, contact your HP service representative to schedule an update for your firmware suite.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Distributions Supported on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Distributions Supported on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Hewlett-Packard has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 and current errata (kernel 2.4.9-e.12) on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300. Purchase the Red Hat operating system independently from your HP hardware.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Preparing your HP Carrier Grade Server cc3300/cc23000 for Operating System Installation Preparing your HP Carrier Grade Server cc3300/cc23000 for Operating System Installation HP recommends executing the instructions in this section in their entirety and in the order presented for the easiest installation experience. You should: 1. Enable your option ROMs 2.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Preparing your HP Carrier Grade Server cc3300/cc23000 for Operating System Installation Setting Up a Service Partition Your system should come with a pre-loaded service partition.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Preparing your HP Carrier Grade Server cc3300/cc23000 for Operating System Installation 5. After rebooting, the HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Resource CD software runs again from the CD. Using your arrow keys, select Utilities from the menu options at the top of the screen and press Enter. 6.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Preparing your HP Carrier Grade Server cc3300/cc23000 for Operating System Installation Enabling the aic7xxx_mod SCSI driver Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 includes the aic7xxx and aic7xxx_mod SCSI drivers. The aic7xxx driver, which is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Getting Updates from Red Hat Network Getting Updates from Red Hat Network After you install your operating system and reboot, login as root on the console (HP recommends using the graphical console rather than the text console) and run the rhn_register command to register your system with Red Hat Network.
Support Note and System Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Operating System on HP Carrier Grade Servers cc3300/cc2300 Known Problems Known Problems IMPORTANT Your HP customer field representative should upgrade your BIOS to version 22. 1. If you change the hardware configuration, the BIOS automatically resets your boot ordering priorities to factory defaults (i.e. it sets the boot drive to a higher priority boot device than the CD-ROM drive).
